diy magnet frag mounts

[rogergolf66]

I have run out of room in the tank and not wanting to upgrade yet here is what I did and what I used to make them. I hope all will be good with the tank.

I used this epoxy to seal the magnets.

I mixed it good then rolled the magnets in the epoxy to cover completely.

I let them dry for 3 days and move them in the still drying puddle of epoxy every day to cover any area that may not be covered well yet

Then before adding to tank I cover with this epoxy also then use ic gell to magnet than agaon on top of the epoxy to get frag to stick.

This was the finished product.

What do u think I have about 13 coral to do mag mounts.

Roger

 

[SeabassSA]

Nice one.

 

[jbonez]

put some bounty towel or viva brand under the dry magnet side or else the mag will scratch your glass

 

[Nicholas41]

Looks great! I might end up doing that! If you wanted to get fancy instead of paper towel you could use a felt pad :spin1:

Cool idea though! I hope I get to see pictures as the frag grows!

 

[Mock]

Question is... Where did you get your maginets?? I have been debating this same idea but instead of an epoxy just a couple coats of liquid rubber....

 

[rogergolf66]

Question is... Where did you get your maginets?? I have been debating this same idea but instead of an epoxy just a couple coats of liquid rubber....

Hobby shop. Mag strength was 6 of 10

 

[rogergolf66]

Looks great! I might end up doing that! If you wanted to get fancy instead of paper towel you could use a felt pad :spin1:

Cool idea though! I hope I get to see pictures as the frag grows!

Of course!!!

 

[rrtree]

would the plasti-dip work ?

 

[rogergolf66]

would the plasti-dip work ?

Yes I was just woried it would be to thick and loss to much magnetic power

 

[chamjack]

I was thinking Plasti-Dip too. You can control the thickness of it by how you dip it and the number of dips. I love this idea. Gonna try it out to get some green star polyps to start growing on my overflow. :beer:

 

[brynkal]

Just a note for those like me who are too lazy to coat the magnets, you can get plastic coated magnets on ebay pretty cheap...

 

[saintsr#1]

I will have to look into this. Looks pretty easy to me

 

[thor109]

K&j magnetics is great , they have what ever you want.
I used these epoxy coated magnets for my power heads. So far no corrosion or any signs of break down. I just superglued 3 to each power head.
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D82E

 

[rogergolf66]

All of them done and on back glass now.

 

[bigzman]

Roger I have seen your tank. Has this worked out for you? Noticed it is an old post. I was thing of this so I can cover overflow with caps of all colors.

 

[rogergolf66]

Yes this is an old thread from my old tank. yes it did work well and if I ran outta room again I may do the same thing again. I may have a few of these laying around if you want to try a couple

 

[bigzman]

Yes please. What did you use to coat them to prevent rust?

 

[rogergolf66]

2 coats of 2 part apoxy

 

[bigzman]

Thanks, if there a shop by us that sell magnets? If one has an old impeller would that work? I don't think they rust. If it they would never use it on power heads or pumps. I have a few old maxi jet impellers I could use.

 

[rogergolf66]

Just test it out put 1 inside and 1 outside the tank se how strong it is. They should work